From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

I think aspects of Mr Rogers started to appear in WinME.   With the great
unwashed, the OEM want this sort of stuff to cut support costs since
they're the first point of contact for preloads.  With corporations its not
an issue as most have conact people who deal with MS directly

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3e470dac{at}w3.nls.net...
> I don't think the "Mr Rogers" aspect was a part of Win9x so
why would it be
> required for the replacement?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
> news:3e46ed08{at}w3.nls.net...
> Easy - produce a consumer market acceptable OS so the 9x code base could be
> retired.  That there was no corresponding touchy-feely 9x release speaks
> volumes.
>
> W2K was/is perfectly acceptable for the vast majority of business uses, but
> didn't have the Mr Rogers neighborhood ambiance of XP to appeal to the
> drooling masses.  With 9x hitting the showers, and apparently no plans for a
> strictly business oriented product, a unification product was mandatory [I
> don't consider XP pro as being business oriented the way W2K is]
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:3e46e3cf{at}w3.nls.net...
>      Facinating.  Can you spell out these goals clearly?
>
>   Rich
>
>
>

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